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Suspected Arson Attacks Target National Railways of Zimbabwe Premises
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has reported a series of suspected arson attacks on its premises, with fires breaking out at key sites in Bulawayo...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 20:13hrs | 526 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe politician arrested for 2019 anti-government protests
Police have arrested Goromonzi West losing candidate for the 2023 elections Tineyi Munetsi for allegedly participating in an anti-government protest back in 2019.The incident has been describe...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 16:36hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Man accuses wife of having an affair, torches boyfriend's hut
A 34-year-old man from Inyathi, torched another's hut while he was asleep, accusing him of having an affair with his wife. The man, according to the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe,...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mix up at South African mortuary, 2-year body swap resolved
IN September 2021, then-31-year-old Bongani Ngwendu was attacked by a vigilante group in a suspected xenophobic attack at an informal settlement in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was burnt to death ...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man throws 5-year-old into blazing hut
A MENTALLY ill man from Zaka in Masvingo went berserk and torched a grass-thatched hut before throwing a juvenile in the raging inferno resulting in the boy succumbing to the burns, police said yester...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Pope Francis over same sex marriages
Catholic congregants in Zimbabwe have expressed disquiet at the Vatican's move to allow the church's priests to bless same-sex couples, saying this is abominable in the majority of African countries a...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man's 'get rich quick' muthi backfires horribly
REMEMBER, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.Blinded by the allure of prosperity, an elderly man from Hwange in Matabeleland North province's quest to get rich quickly thr...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cops who fled hooligans at Barbourfields not cowards, says police spokesperson
Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednigo Ncube says anti-riot police and dog handlers who took to their heels with football hooligans in hot pursuit at Barbourfields stadium recently...Published: 07 Oct 2023 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on a knife edge
Zimbabwe is now treading on a slippery political crisis. It was never in doubt that a coup government no matter how many goals it concedes, it will never under what circumstances surrender power to th...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 14:08hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa's CCC claims that its supporters and activists are being attacked
A WAVE of post-election violence has been reported across Zimbabwe as the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) claims that its supporters and activists are being attacked.The violenc...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ERC, ZESN unable to verify Zimbabwe election results
ELECTION Resource Centre (ERC) and Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) have said they are unable to verify Presidential election results after police confiscated their gadgets in a recent raid of...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 23:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teargas after Chamisa rally
Residents in nearby suburbs were forced to inhale chocking smoke as anti-riot police fired teargas canisters at Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters few moments after party leader Nelson Cha...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 19:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CCC activist family survives petrol-bombing
A CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist, Lloyd Mkwara, and his family are lucky to be alive and that no valuable property was damaged after an unknown assailant threw a suspected petrol bomb i...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, police differ on Shurugwi arson case
POLICE have dismissed speculation that an arson case in which 10 houses were burnt in Shurugwi, Midlands province, over the weekend was a result of political violence.The police's position con...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slams violence in Shurugwi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has directed the police to hunt down and bring to book all perpetrators linked to the reported incident of suspected political violence in Shurugwi, Midlands Province, and urged Zi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss accused of ordering hit on wife's competitor
Zanu-PF Central Committee member Tafadzwa Shumba has accused Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director General Isaac Moyo of ordering a hit on him in an ongoing fight for Mwenezi West's parliam...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss' wife dragged into carjacking attack storm
Independent candidate for Mwenezi West parliamentary election, Tafadzwa Shumba says men who hijacked and later torched his car Wednesday were driving a vehicle belonging to political nemesis and poll ...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 20:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Truck arson attacks spark sabotage fears in South Africa
South African police said on Wednesday 21 trucks have been torched in a series of mysterious attacks that President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as acts of "economic sabotage".Unknown assaila...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Storm over Black Elisha's one-on-one charges
DOES the Christian community believe that divine blessings are monetary, or if you don't have money God won't be able to teach or heal you through his prophet?These are just some of the questi...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Vehicles, shops torched as rival miners clash
THREE Honda Fit vehicles as well as a number of tuck-shops were set on fire in a fight between two rival groups of miners at Wanderer gold mine in Shurugwi.The incident happened on Friday when...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo in Belarus to procure fire engines, agric equipment
A delegation led by Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo is currently in Minsk, Belarus to purchase agricultural equipment, fire engines and other equipment.In June last year, ...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign funded NGOs angered by Zimbabwe's 'Patriot Bill'
THE controversial Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Bill, also known as the Patriot Bill, which was approved by the National Assembly last week has torched a storm, with legislators and...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: ZANU PF electorate protest
ZANU PF electorate in Maramba constituency, Mashonaland East recently protested against their provincial leadership which endorsed Tichaona Karimazondo who won in the ended chaotic primary elections....Published: 28 May 2023 at 12:02hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa ally flees angry Zanu-PF mob
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Larry Mavima was on Saturday forced to flee an angry Zanu-PF mob that was protesting against alleged rigging of the ruling party's primary elections in the Gokwe-C...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth commissar vehicles torched
TWO vehicles belonging to the Beitbridge Zanu-PF Youth political commissar Lawrence Mbanje were last night torched at his home in Dulibadzimu in a case suspected intra-party violence.This come...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Lying' Coventry, Kamambo in bare knuckle fight
SUSPENDED Zifa board members have accused Sports minister Kirsty Coventry of lying under oath, following her recent claims in Parliament that she stepped in and fired them after they failed to account...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Passion Java taunts Zimbabweans over gold theft
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and self-styled prophet Passion Java has torched a fiery storm after appearing in a video bragging that those implicated in Al Jazeera's four-part gold smuggling do...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spin doctors rattled by Al Jazeera exposé
THE Al Jazeera documentary which exposed how people close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa are involved in gold smuggling and money laundering has torched a storm, with citizens openly expressing anger...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African based Mozambican Herman Mashaba threatens terror on Zimbabwean officials
SOUTH African opposition party leader Herman Mashaba has fired a salvo again at Zanu-PF saying his party will push for Zimbabwe's ruling party officials to be barred from the neighbouring country if h...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 19:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Zifa officials a confused lot'
A CHICKEN INN football club executive member has accused Zifa of double standards following their decision to ban coaches without Caf A coaching licences to coach in the Castle Lager Premier Soc...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt told to probe Zec commissioners
ELECTORAL watchdogs have demanded that government must launch an inquiry into the fallout among Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioners, which they say has crippled the electoral body six mo...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa food security claims raise dust
POLITICAL analysts have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of misleading the world at the Feed Africa Summit in Dakar, Senegal, early this week where he said Zimbabwe was food secure.They sa...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Businessman torches homes on suspicion he was being bewitched
VILLAGERS in Chivi's Sese area are living in constant fear after the return of a businessman Thomas Chapeta, who in August torched about 25 homes of those he suspected of bewitching him.Chapet...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 15:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel 'settles' land disputes with villagers
Business tycoon Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South through parcelling out one-acre fields of irrigated la...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
5,000 students barred from MSU graduation
Midlands State University (MSU) has torched anger after barring at least 5,200 of its 6,500 student complement from physically attending their graduation ceremony citing the need to comply with Covid-...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe govt officials too corrupt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says there is rampant abuse of public funds by government bureaucrats by flouting procurement procedures, crippling service delivery.Addressing delegates at the pr...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes heroic Zimbabwe Chevrons
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted the Zimbabwe national cricket team after the Chevrons wrote a new piece of history in Australia by qualifying to the prestigious Super 12 of the ICC Men's T20 Wor...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police call for political stability
The police want a peaceful general election next year and in the aftermath of a violent confrontation in Matobo on Sunday have called on all political parties to act responsibly and desist from perpet...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean asylum seeker married at age 9 and 13 earns court reprieve to remain in Ireland
A 29-year-old Zimbabwe woman married first at age nine and again at age 13 has earned a Court of Appeal reprieve in her bid to remain in Ireland.The woman – who is a lesbian – arrived here...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala makes 8th attempt at freedom
ZENGEZA West MP and senior member of the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change, Job Sikhala, on Friday made an eighth attempt at freedom, citing changed circumstances.He is scheduled to ap...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chilonga land grab resistance intensifies
EIGHT community leaders from Chilonga area were briefly detained at Chiredzi Police Station on Thursday after continuously resisting the establishment of lucerne plantations on their ancestral land....Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections marred by violence
VIOLENCE and ugly scenes reportedly marred the just-ended Zanu-PF central committee (CC) elections as bigwigs locked horns over positions in the party's highest decision-making body.Reports an...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Makandiwa's corruption remarks
United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa has torched a storm after one of his sermons went viral on social media, in which he appeared to "sanitise" corruption.In th...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top officials pay ZW$100k each to fund Mnangagwa endorsement ritual as 2023 Presidential candidate
THE ruling Zanu-PF political party has issued a directive compelling top party leaders to make contributions of varying amounts ahead of the 7th National Congress, which has been thrown into jeopardy ...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
14 CCC members' bail bid rejected
The group of 14 CCC members, facing charges of assault, arson and looting after the violence that rocked Nyatsime area after Moreblessing Ali was kidnapped and murdered by a former boyfriend, have had...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plumtree: A fuel smugglers paradise
FUEL smuggling is rampant along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border, with illicit traders resorting to paying bribes to evade arrest, a practice that has seen the country losing millions of dollars in potent...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs speak out against Zanu-PF coercion
Zimbabwe's rural areas have for decades been a Zanu-PF stronghold, and are turned into no-go areas for the opposition during elections.Previous Zanu-PF election victories in the rural ar...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala defence lawyer Mtetwa demands arrest of top prosecutors
RIGHTS lawyer Beatrice Mtethwa who is representing Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole on Tuesday called for the detention of prosecutor Micheal Reza and Lan...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC should negotiate Sikhala release says Madhuku
CONSTITUTIONAL law lecturer and opposition politician Professor Lovemore Madhuku torched a storm Tuesday after suggesting that political negotiations were now the only realistic route for securing the...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers report for duty
AT least 70% of teachers who reported for duty yesterday when schools opened for the third term did so out of fear of suspension or having their salaries docked, teacher unions claimed.Teacher...Published: 06 Sep 2022 at 19:07hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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